Lucy Slack is one of the co-founding member of Gaia, which is a startup that is effectively out to “de-risk” the whole process of IVF fertility treatment, using products like personalized insurance and payment plans. Gaia has now raised $23 million since its inception from Kindred Capital, Seedcamp, and U.S.-based Clocktower Technology, and Atomico. Where to find Lucy Slack: • Website: (18) Gaia: Overview | LinkedIn • LinkedIn (18) Lucy Slack | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan: •...

Noosheen Hashemi is the Founder and CEO of January, who has developed a platform that predicts diabetic patients’ responses to certain foods. January has raised $40 million to date from notable investors such as Felicis Ventures, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, and former Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. “One out of three people in America has pre-diabetes, and 90% of them don’t know it,” said Hashemi. “And one out of nine people has diabetes, and 20% of those people...

Sancar Sahin is the founder of Oliva, which is a healthtech platform offering specialist, on-demand mental health and wellbeing support to employees. The Company raised €13 million from notable investors such as Molten Ventures and was joined by existing investors Stride VC and new backers Alumni Ventures. Angels including Kieran Flanagan, CMO at Zapier, also participated. The raise follows a year where Oliva doubled the size of its team, increased its network of therapists from 50 to over...

My guest today is Jenny He the Co-founder of Ergeon, which uses tech to fundamentally transform the residential construction sector by empowering both the customer and local installers in their construction project. Ergeon has raised to date $53 million from notable investors such  Prysm, DST, Basis Set and Metaprop. Where to find Jenny He: • Website: Ergeon Fence Contractors Installation and Repair • LinkedIn (1) Jiayue (Jenny) He | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan: • Newsletter:...

Shani Bocian is the Founder of Allermi, the world's first allergy medication customized online by a physician and delivered to your door. With $4M raised to date and having licensed their product in 50 states, they're well on their way to addressing the U.S,'s worsening allergies caused by climate change and Long COVID.  Where to find Shani Bocian: • Website: Allermi - Personalized Allergy Care • LinkedIn Shani Bocian Steinberg | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan: • Newsletter: Principles...

My guest today is Erik Allebest, the Co-founder and CEO of Chess.com, the #1 online chess service on the planet with more than 150+ million members and 15+ million games played daily. Erik has scaled the company to over 700 people and $100M+ in revenue with no venture funding. If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people. We recently launched our new...

Ron Gidron is the co-founder and CEO of xtype.io, a technology company that accelerates software development for large companies like Zurich Insurance, Heineken, HP, Abbot Laboratories, and IBM. Xtype has also recorded over 75,000 customer deployments using its product in the past year and has raised $10.8 million to date. If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more...

Devin Bostick is the founder of Lucky Truck, a Cincinnati-based company that is seeking to bring together essential pieces of the insurance purchase and management process in an easy-to-use digital platform, that leverages data and automation to remove friction from the customer journey. Lucky Truck has raised a $6.5 million from Candid Insurance Investors with participation from Markd, Draper University Ventures and SiriusPoint. If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and...

Bethany Stachenfeld is the co-founder of Sendspark, a technology that makes it easy for businesses to create and send personalized videos to strengthen relationships with customers at every stage of the buyer journey. Founded in Jan 2019 by Brandon Escalante and Bethany Stachenfeld, Sendspark provides a video outreach platform for businesses to record and send personalized videos to buyers over email. With the platform, users can record videos from their browser, customize video landing...

Aron D'Souza is the co-founder of Enhanced Games, a planned international sports event where the athletes will not be subject to drug testing. Enhanced Games is a vision of the future Olympics where athletes use safe and legal enhancements to improve their performance. Backed by top venture capitalists, including Peter Thiel, it aims to create a better version of the Olympic Games. In contrast to traditional drug testing, the Enhanced Games will not subject athletes to such tests. Instead, it...

Bartosz Skwarczek is the Founder of G2A, the world’s largest digital marketplace for digital entertainment such as games, gift cards, subscriptions, and software. Bartosz is also a serial entrepreneur, Forbes Technology Council member, public speaker, and a huge proponent of Web3’s integration with digital marketplaces. G2A has scaled rapidly since its launch in 2012 -- it's available in 180 countries and supports 200+ payment methods. Where to find Bartosz Skwarczek: • Website:...

Hamdi Tabbaa is the co-founder of the Jordan-based online learning platform Abwaab, which is the MENA and Pakistan region that encompasses more than 160 million students. Abwaab has raised $27 million from investors such as BECO Capital (UAE), 4DX Ventures (USA), GSV Ventures (USA), Water Partners (KSA), and others. Founded in late 2019, the startup expanded from Jordan to Egypt and Pakistan. Where to find Hamdi Tabbaa: • Website: أبواب - بيئة تعليمية متكاملة (abwaab.com) • LinkedIn Hamdi...

George Moringer is one of founder of Tapouts, which is a s an online program that coaches children to practice social and emotional skills. The mental health startup just raised a $3.2 million seed round at a $20 million valuation. The children's mental health market is booming as part of a larger cultural shift toward transparency around mental health and well-being. Where to find George Moringer: • Website: Home - tapouts • LinkedIn (8) George Moringer | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi...

Bob Moore is the founder of Crossbeam, which is a platform-led ecosystem that helps companies build sales partnerships by understanding their overlapping accounts using a process called account mapping. There is a vast network effect as customers attract other partners to the network. The Company raised $117 million from notable investors such as Andreessen Horowitz led the round, with participation from prior round lead investors Redpoint Ventures, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital and...

Bobby Touran is the co-founder of Rainbow, which is an insurance reinventing the way restaurants buy insurance. Essentially, Rainbow is a digitally enabled managing general underwriter building tailored small business insurance products. Rainbow has now raised $12 million since its inception from Caffeinated Capital, Altai Ventures, Zigg Capital, 8VC, Buckley Ventures, Habitat Partners, and Arch Capital Group Ltd. The company’s flagship program, an admitted business owner’s policy (BOP)...

Chris Slater is the co-founder and CEO of Oka, a Carbon Insurance company that is de-risking the voluntary carbon market (VCM) for buyers and sellers of carbon credits. Its first-of-its-kind carbon insurance solution provides buyers with financial compensation for unforeseeable and unavoidable post-issuance risks, including reversal and invalidation. Oka has now raised $7 million since its inception from Aquiline Technology Growth. The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is experiencing significant...

Nikolaus Suhr, the co-founder of Kasko, an insurance technology company founded in 2015,  offers "InsurTech as a Service"; it specializes in working with large insurers to design, distribute, and run digital insurance products for any distribution channel. Kasko has now raised $3 million since its 2015 inception. Where to find Nikolaus Suhr: • Website: KASKO • LinkedIn (5) Nikolaus Sühr | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan: • Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack •...

Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz, the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Chapter, a Medicare advisory platform that uses a blend of technology and a trained team of advisors to decipher all plans at a microscopic level, ensuring that members can enroll in the plans that are best suited for their needs based on cost and coverage. Chapter has raised to date $61 million from notable investors such as Addition, Narya Capital, Susa Ventures, Maverick Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, Core Innovation...

Aidan Rushby is the co-founder and CEO of Carmoola, liberating the archaic, slow, and backward car finance market with a new, straightforward “neo car finance” product that is effortless to use and reduces the time taken to complete a car purchase from days to just minutes. Carmoola’s exclusive proprietary technology and systems enable a streamlined process that provides buyers with a budget, generates a free history check on the car, and allows payment to be made both instantly online and at...

Julio Martínez is the co-founder & CEO of Abacum is the leading FP&A automation platform that empowers Finance teams to: 👉Drive efficient growth with faster revenue forecasts, scenarios, and headcount planning. 👉Free up time by automating Board decks and monthly performance and forecasting reports. 👉Increase your time for analysis with all your operational and financial KPIs in one place, in real time. 👉Drive budget owner accountability with structured workflows. Abacum has raised...

Robert Korzinek, the co-founder of Zingcover, which delivers truly specialist, tailored insurance cover for end-consumers through embedded partnerships in retail markets. ZingCover has now raised a total of $1.2 million since its 2021 inception. Where to find Robert Korzinek: • Website: Zing Cover – Embedded insurance powered by Brands, Data & Expertise • LinkedIn (1) Robert Korzinek | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan: • Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack •...

Matt Watson is the founder and CEO of Origin, a comprehensive employee financial wellness platform. Its integrated solution helps employees simultaneously manage compensation, benefits, and personal finances with financial professionals. Origin is the first platform that combines human financial planners with cutting-edge financial technology that educates employees and allows them to create, execute, and track their personalized financial plans. Origin has now raised $72 million since its...

Steven Bartel is the co-founder of Gem, which is helping talent acquisition teams hire with remarkable speed and efficiency. With Gem, teams can automate and personalize candidate communication, unify all recruiting touchpoints into a single system, and get usable data across the entire hiring process. Gem has raised a total of $148 million from notable investors such as ICONIQ, Greylock, Accel, Sapphire Ventures, and Meritech Capital. Where to find Steven Bartel: • Website: Recruiting CRM |...

Matthew Grant is a partner at Instech which is the world’s largest insurance technology community. They offer unprecedented connections to the most comprehensive and global gathering of tech entrepreneurs, investors, and insurance industry incumbents. They host conferences, webinars, roundtables, and insurtech rankings. They have hosted over 25,000 executives, entrepreneurs, and investors. Where to find Matthew Grant: • Website: (5) Matthew Grant | LinkedIn • LinkedIn instech.co | Where to...